The Five Witnesses to Jesus

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“If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not valid.

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But there is someone else testifying on my behalf, and I know that the testimony he is making is valid —

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you have sent to Yochanan, and he has testified to the truth.

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Not that I collect human testimony; rather, I say these things so that you might be saved.

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He was a lamp burning and shining, and for a little while you were willing to bask in his light.

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“But I have a testimony that is greater than Yochanan’s. For the things the Father has given me to do, the very things I am doing now, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

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“In addition, the Father who sent me has himself testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice or seen his shape;

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moreover, his word does not stay in you, because you don’t trust the one he sent.

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You keep examining the Tanakh because you think that in it you have eternal life. Those very Scriptures bear witness to me,

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but you won’t come to me in order to have life!

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“I don’t collect praise from men,

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but I do know you people — I know that you have no love for God in you!

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I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept.

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How can you trust? You’re busy collecting praise from each other, instead of seeking praise from God only.

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“But don’t think that it is I who will be your accuser before the Father. Do you know who will accuse you? Moshe, the very one you have counted on!

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For if you really believed Moshe, you would believe me; because it was about me that he wrote.

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But if you don’t believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

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